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3 years ago

What is the fifth term of the sequence whose first term is 10 and whose common ratio is 1/2?

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Cloud [144]3 years ago

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Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

Common ratio of half means that to get each successive terms, you have to multiply the preceding term by half.

Since first term is 10

2nd term is $10*\frac{1}{2}=5$

3rd term is $5*\frac{1}{2}=\frac{5}{2}$

4th term is $\frac{5}{2}*\frac{1}{2}=\frac{5}{4}$

5th term is $\frac{5}{4}*\frac{1}{2}=\frac{5}{8}$

Answer choice D is right.

Kipish [7]3 years ago

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The fifth term of the sequence whose first term is 10 and whose common ratio is ½ is 5/8. The correct answer between all the choices given is the last choice or letter D. I am hoping that this answer has satisfied your query and it will be able to help you in your endeavor, and if you would like, feel free to ask another question.

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b) $P(X \geq 3) = 1-P(X$

c) $P(\bar X \geq 225)=1- P(\bar X$

Step-by-step explanation:

Previous concepts

Normal distribution, is a "probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean".

The Z-score is "a numerical measurement used in statistics of a value's relationship to the mean (average) of a group of values, measured in terms of standard deviations from the mean".

2) Part a

Let X the random variable that represent the cuts of a population, and for this case we know the distribution for X is given by:

$X \sim N(225,16.5)$

Where $\mu=225$ and $\sigma=16.5$

For this part we want to find a value a, such that we satisfy this condition:

$P(X>a)=0.25$ (a)

$P(X$ (b)

Both conditions are equivalent on this case. We can use the z score again in order to find the value a.

As we can see on the figure attached the z value that satisfy the condition with 0.75 of the area on the left and 0.25 of the area on the right it's z=0.674. On this case P(Z<0.674)=0.75 and P(z>0.674)=0.25

If we use condition (b) from previous we have this:

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But we know which value of z satisfy the previous equation so then we can do this:

$z=0.674=\frac{a-225}{16.5}$

And if we solve for a we got

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Part b

For this case we know that the individual probability of select one wheel with a cutting rate higher than the calculated value in part a is 0.25, and we select n =10 so then we can use the binomial distribution for this case:

$X\sim Bin(n=10, p=0.25)$

And we want this probability:

$P(X \geq 3) = 1-P(X$

We can find the individual probabilities like this:

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$P(X=1)=(10C1)(0.25)^1 (1-0.25)^{10-1}=0.1877$

$P(X=2)=(10C2)(0.25)^2 (1-0.25)^{10-2}=0.2816$

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